Feathermen

Feathermen are feathered humanoids who have the gift of flight and long life, living upwards of 200 years regularly. They are unmistakable from Humans at birth, but at the proper age they will transform when under the full moon light in a Paladin Temple.

Baesi Neyma
Baesi Neyma was the first Eyrsan to accidentally discover the transformation. She led a small religious cult known as Selenites in the earliest days of Vallos. The Selenites had developed strict observance rituals for the gods and Paladus. One spring evening in Oe1972, Baesi led a group of her followers to stay all night in their open air temple to worship the gods. Overnight she fell ill. Worried because others who fell violently ill while staying overnight in the Paladin Temples died shortly after being moved to a hospital, her followers kept her in the temple in hopes that she would recover. Over the course of the next 6 days her body transformed her into what was dubbed a Featherwan